Cookies

Cookies may be used on some parts of the Kingston University website. These are small pieces of information that are sent to your computer (unless you block them). They are stored on your computer and help us to recognise you if you return to our site at a later stage. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

Cookie settings

If you don't want to receive certain categories of cookies on this site, you can opt-out below. We will still need to set a cookie so that we can remember your choices when you next visit the website from the same browser. Please note that at present it is not technically possible for us to allow you to carry your settings with you between your browsers and devices so you will need to change these settings on each browser you use.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

1. Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for the functionality of our site:

PHP session - This cookie is used in various parts of our site to help preserve the choices you make above in a session. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.

2. Course visitor cookie

This cookie is set when viewing the course pages on our site. It allows the site to remember which courses you have viewed and added to your favourites so that these can be highlighted when you visit one of our pages.

3. Google Analytics cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Find out more about Google Analytics cookies

4. Third party cookies

To support our content, we sometimes embed material from websites such as YouTube. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. Similarly, when you use one of the share buttons on our website, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. Kingston University does not control the dissemination of these cookies and this tool will not block cookies from those websites. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

More information

The following cookies may be set during your visit to this site:

Cookie

Name

Purpose

Undergraduate personalised prospectus

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This cookie is essential for the undergraduate personalised prospectus ordering system to operate. It is set once the order process has begun and allows the system to remember which courses you have chosen during the ordering process so that the choices aren't lost when you leave the site. The cookie is deleted once the order has been submitted.

Viewed and favourite courses

ku_course_visitor

This cookie is set when viewing the course pages on our site. It allows the website to remember which courses you have viewed and added to your favourites so that these can be displayed to you when you visit one of our pages.

PHP session

PHPSESSID

This cookie is used in various parts of our site to help preserve the choices you make above in a session. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Find out more.